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Were investigations into the bidens, john bolton told fiona hill, you go and tell National Security council eisenberg i am involved in whatever they are tooking up on this. Km donald trump argued once again that he a perfect phone call with the president of ukraine. When by any standard it is not perfect. After calling for democrats to stop Holding Hearings behind closed doors today decried democrats for making next weeks hearings public. Reporter two of the most central players in the relationship with ukraine putting the chief of staff at the center of the scandal and delivering the harshest blow to the claim there was no quid pro quo. This is a hoax. This is just like the russian witch hunt. Reporter Lieutenant Colonel vindman the top ukraine expert telling lawmakers there was no ambiguity that in order for kraens the ukraine president to get a meeting at the white house, they have to investigate the bidens. There was a july on july 25th which he said left no doubt that this is what was required in order to get the meeting that the ukrainians had been aggressively pushing for. Vindman heard that message from Gordon Sondland, u. S. Ambassador to the European Union relaying a message from mulvaney who admitted the quid pro quo last month. Get over it. Reporter he responded that it was inappropriate and had nothing to do with National Security. Well i want to thank colonel vindman for his courage in coming forward and his willingness follow the law, to do his duty. Reporter vindman wasnt alone. His then boss fiona hill read the transcript and was shocked. I sat in an awful lot of calls, she said, and ive not seen anything like this. And hills had been told by sondland that mulvaney skrated the ukrainians would get a meeting with the ukrainians started up the investigations again. Hill testified that sondland told this directly to the ukrainians in a july 10th meeting. John bolton, National Security adviser at the time suddenly ended the meeting. Bolton then told hill to report it to the top nsc lawyer saying im not part of whatever drug deal sondland and mulvaney are cooking up. Vindman, who is also disturbed by the meeting reported it as well. Hill and vindman had both known about the role that Rudy Giuliani was playing in ukraine, pushing the conspiracy theories and working to get the u. S. Ambassador removed. After he was successful, bolton told hill that giuliani was a hand grenade that is going to blow everybody up. Hill left the white house in august and said that during her time there and since then she has gotten all kinds of threats including death threats, called with obscenities to her house and people hammering on her front door. She was called a mole for george sur os which is a common antisemitic slander and accused of colluding with enemies of the president. Jake. Alex marquardt, thanks so much. Lets chew over there. Mary katharine, vindman testified that sondland, who is the ambassador to the eu, who was running a point for the white house on ukraine and sondland told him he was coordinating with Mick Mulvaney on the necessity to launch investigations in order to secure a white house meeting with zelensky and trump. Answer, this is vindman. So i heard him say, sondland, this is coordinated with white house chief of staff mr. Mick mulvaney. Question, what did he say about that . He just said that he had conversation with mr. Mulvaney and this is what was required in order to get a white house meeting. Question, did he explain what the investigations were that were needed. Vindman he talked about the investigations which i guess ill refer to my statement, the 2016 these things tend to be conflated so hes talking about the 2016 elections and an investigation into the bidens and burisma. Both fiona hill and vindman testified that sondland said mulvaney is running point on this. Yeah. Look, i think from the time that the rough transcript came out, its been fairly obvious this was obvious and obviously wrong what was going on here. Now whether it rises to impeachment and removement is the question we have obviously backup on that. And i think to me what is compelling and should be compelling to those who argue this might be some politically motivated attack is that vindman was reporting this in the regular channels as soon as it happened. And when you have contemporaneous concern that it was reported in a responsible way that means there might have been something up here, guys. So i think that cuts very hard against the argument against this. An hour after that he went to the National Security council lawyer eisenberg and yet a lot of the president s allies and including President Trump, his number one ally, attacking Lieutenant Colonel vindman. I think theyre afraid right now. I dont think theyre on the best footing, the Republican Party and the president himself and you could see the impact of impeachment where theyve said this is political suicide and not playing out right now. And i think you could see that from the most recent elections as well so i think the president and the administration right now is scared and theyre showing it. Pick up on one thing Mary Katharine said about the contemporaneous character of what colonel vindman did, or the john bolton quote where he said after the meeting tell eisenberg i dont want to be part of that drug deal. You go to the White House Council office and i dont want to be part of that drug deal. Ive known john bolton and worked with him and hes a friendly acquaintance, i would characterize. John bolton is not a bureaucrat or Government Official who is close to the line or a little controversial, john bolton has pushed the edge, not in a legal way but aggressive way for years in government and that is why people didnt like him. And bolton heard this, National Security adviser to the president , and 30 years of government experience and here is this thing going on that said im out of here and you go talk to the White House Council. You worked in the white house, where at the end of it an extremely senior person said to the deputy, you better go talk to the white house counsel. That is contemporaneous evidence of how rotten it was. And we were told well we learned that boltons attorney told congress that he knows even more. Stuff that we dont even know about. I cant wait to learn it when he testifies. If he testifies. If he testifies. I think democrats would love to hear from him. There is no question about that. As we saw from the news yesterday, they dont want to go through a court bat thal could delay this by months. There are a bunch of interesting things about how close this circle is getting to President Trump. Mulvaney you mentioned is the chief of staff. You could hardly say i dont know that guy. Also that White House Council knew about this and reported up through eisenberg and he sat on if well we dont know what he did. Maybe he talked to trump and maybe he didnt. But it is becoming closer and closer to trump and in addition to the transcript of the call that we already know about as well as the meetings. But there is a lot players he cant claim to not know. But as Mary Katharine pointed out you cant get closer to trump than trump. I did the thing. Here is the transcript. Here is the rough transcript. It is a perfect phone call. At the end of the day, he keeps saying this is a perfect phone call and that is designed to serve as some sort of gaslighting talking point because it is obviously not perfect because if it were he wouldnt be in the middle of being impeached. But it would be the more politically effective argument to say the way he was handling this was clearly wrong. My bad. Apologies. The money eventually flowed. I was talked out of that bad thing i was doing and ive done a lot of bad things anz talked out of them and there is no deliverable and move forward and work for the American People but he wont allow that argument to be made because he continues to say it was perfect. Everyone stick around. We have a lot to talk about with the transcript and two key witnesses to testify. What is the democrats strategy if any for the next week public hearing and well talk to one of the key house committees next. And good for democrats or better for trump . 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So this is colonel vindman testifying about a conversation he had with ambassador sondland regarding the quote unquote deliverables, what ukraine needed to do in order to get this meeting. Question, do you understand how he came to believe this deliverable was necessary . Answer, so i heard him say, sondland, this is coordinated with Mick Mulvaney. And question what did sondland say about that. Answer, he said he had a conversation with mr. Mulvaney and this is what was required in order for the ukrainians to get a meeting. Question, did he explain what the investigations were that were needed and vind mand and he talked about the investigations and the 2016 election and the investigation into the bidens and burisma. Mulvaney defied the subpoenas today to come in and talk to the impeachment inquiry. Your committee is not challenging his defense to the subpoena and not taking it to court. Why not . Isnt mulvaneys testimony essential . Thank you, jake, for that question. All of these witnesses that we have seen corroborate the exact same narrative which is that donald trump solicited foreign interference in our election at the dispense of u. S. National security. We would love to have Mick Mulvaney but we dont need him because we have colonel vindman saying what happened and fiona hill and george kent and ambassador taylor have all corroborated the exact same story that we have enough witnesses to go forward. So the three people publicly testifying next week are bill taylor the top diplomat in ukraine for the u. S. , george kent, a state Department Official and the former ambassador masha yovanovitch. None of them talked to President Trump about this ukraine scandal, wouldnt it be good to have somebody whether ambassador sondland or Rudy Giuliani or Mick Mulvaney, somebody who had talked to trump about this . This is just a first week of public hearings. Were going to have more. If you look at the witness depositions, sondland talked directly to the president a number of times. But beyond that, we have actual call record of july 25th between donald trump and lizzinski talking about military aide and donald trump asked for a favor though and when you read through the rest of the transcript it is investigations into the dnc as well as the bidens so we already know there is no daylight between any of the policies that were being executed by giuliani and mulvaney and donald trump. Theyre saying the exact same thing. Is sondland you said that next week is just the first week of hearings. Are you going to call sondland to testify publicly . That remains to be seen. But with his new addendum to his testimony it is pretty compelling because with his new addendum he explicitly said there was a quid pro quo between the Trump Administration and the ukrainians. Call it extortion or bribery, it is all the same thing when the president used his powers to freeze military aid, to dangle a critical meeting between the white house and the ukrainian leader in exchange for launching two bogus investigations. Sondland did admit in the addendum the meeting would only come in exchange for investigations, although he doesnt use the term extortion or bribery or quid pro quo. John boltons lawyer said today that his clients, that mr. Bolton, the former National Security adviser has significant insights into matters involved in the impeachment inquiry but he will not testify until a Court Resolves whether or not he has to comply with the subpoena. Should you, democrats leading the inquiry wait until you could have bolton testify . It sounds like he knows a lot. Right. Right. So im a former prosecutor and i would love to track down every single lead and every single witness. But in this case, all of the damning evidence really came out pretty early. We have the sum vised call transcript and ambassador volkers Text Messages released showing diplomats under about the quid pro quo. We know that donald trump froze critical security aid to ukraine. Essentially this is a lot of undisputed facts. We would love to have john bolton come in if he is going to wait for a court order, that might take months and months and were not going to way months and months. Is it your believe that the rough transcript of the conversation between trump and zelensky, that that is all you need in terms of firsthand quid pro quo evidence that that is speak it speaks for itself. That is not all that we need. But part of the evidence. This is a monthslong Pressure Campaign by donald trump to try to get the ukrainians to launch these two investigations into the bidens and the dnc so we have the transcript where he mentioned the two investigations and those are the president s own words and then all of the testimony from state Department Officials, Lieutenant Colonel vindman and others who corroborate that exact same story that the Trump Administration was trying to get the ukraine to launch investigations and they did it by with holding military aid and dangling this important meeting with zelensky. Democratic congressman ted lieu, thank you. We appreciate it. A damning portrait of the president in chaos and what would have shown strength. Resigning enmass according to the anonymous author as boris sanch he is reports now, that distressing description comes as President Trump dismisses up coming impeachment inquiries and said he is not worried at all. Reporter President Trump projecting confidence on impeachment but contradicting members of his own party and republicans have called for more transparency from impeachment inquiry investigators for a week and trump demanding next weeks public har hearings are scrapped. This is a hoax. Just like the russian witch hunt, just a continuation. To protect the president the House Republicans are narrowing focus on distancing him from three key aides. The Washington Post reports they want to shift blame to his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney who was directly implicated in testimony released today and Eu Ambassador Gordon Sondland despite sondland donating a Million Dollars to his inauguration, trump today claimed he barely knows an ambassador that he nominated. Let me just tell you, i hardly know the gentleman. Reporter while sources say trump still regularly talks to giuliani, allies like mark meadows are sowing doubts about his personal attorney going rogue on ukraine. There is a whole lot of things that he does that doesnt surprise anybody. Reporter and damaging details by a warning describing a west king in chaos. Excerpts provided to the New York Times and Washington Post revealing senior officials considered mass resignation, a midnight selfmassacre in protest of trump but they ultimately didnt follow through fearing more instability. The unnamed author searing trump writing he is, quote, like a 12yearold in an air Traffic Control tower, pushing the buttons of government indiscriminately and and indifferent to the planes skidding across the runway and the flights diverting away from the airport. Though superintendent tief of the president , anonymous said trumps behavior after john mccains death and refusing to lower flags to halfstaff was the final straw leading them to speak out writing, quote, President Trump in unprecedented fashion was determined to use his office to limit the nations recognition of john mccains legacy. Stephanie gresham put out a statement responding to the details in the book and called it a farce and she writes, quote, that the coward who wrote this book didnt put their name on it because it is nothing but lies. Real authors reach out to their subjects to get things fact checked but this person is in hiding making that basic part of being a real writer impossible. Jake, a white house that emphasizes alternative facts demanding factchecking and urged reporters to treat this book like as piece of fiction. Facts suddenly important. Thank you. Michael bloomberg could be the next billionaire in the 2020 race. 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Michael bloomberg taking steps to make a late entry into the 2020 race but biden saying hes not worried. Welcome into the race. Michael is a solid guy and lets see where it goes. I have no problem with him getting in the race. Reporter bloomberg seen in new york city not answering questions as his team was set to file the primary paperwork in alabama, whose deadline is today. The former new york city mayor ruled out a 2020 bid in march as he saw a narrow path to victory with biden in the race. As recently as September Bloomberg said he was comfortable with his decision. You look at the layout of who is going to vote and i would be unlikely to get reelected. He was among the lower polling candidates in a survey. A cnn poll last year showed him registering at 2 and in recent polling has shown the overwhelming majority of potential democratic voters are satisfied with their options in the current field. Smaller Group Reporter but now advisers to bloomberg say hes concerned the current crop is not well positioned to beat trump. His potential rivals firing back. Bernie sanders tweeting, the billionaire class is scared and they should be scared. It is not enough just to have somebody come in, anybody and say gar theyre going to buy this election. Reporter for years he was a registered republican later becoming an independent before registering as a democrat last year. Hes poured millions into progressive causes like combatting Climate Change and gun control. We have to send a message to elected officials vote for common sense gun laws or we will throw you out. Enough [ applause ] reporter as bloomberg is closer to jumping into the 2020 race, President Trump predicts a bloomberg candidacy will fail. He will not do well and if he did, id be happy. There is nobody i would rather run against. Reporter now if Michael Bloomberg decide to get into the race it is unlikely hell qualify for that a few days away and even the december debate could be tricky. Jake. Arlette saenz, thank you. And dana bash talked with biden about bloomberg this afternoon. Take a listen. Michael bloomberg is making a jump into the race and one of his top advisers said what is motivating bloomberg is a desire to defeat donald trump and, quote, mike is increasingly concerned that the current field of candidates is not well positioned to do that. What is your response to that . I think he should jump in the race. Hes a good guy. Hes done a lot of good and lets see what happens. And the notion that the current field is not prepared to beat donald trump which is what is motivating him, what his top advisers are saying. Well every single poll is run i beat him like a drum as i said and states in the south and states in the midwest and states around the world. So i look, if he wants to run, he should just get in and run. Youre not taking it personally . No, no no. Biden has fallen behind in polling in New Hampshire and should he be worried and a challenge from Michael Bloomberg. I think he absolutely should. There is a bloomberg entering the race and it is clear that for billionaires spending 200,000 on facebook ads today will get you 3 in the polls and maybe a spot on the president ial debate. But in terms of the tom steyer reference. Exactly. So i dont think there is a whole lot of movement for bloomberg but it is the same lane for biden which is this business friendly and corporate friendly and moderate lane and that cut news bidens space well but at the same time bloomberg cant so who is the bloomberg voter in New Hampshire or iowa or in South Carolina . Because biden gets older voters, and he gets more moderate voters, those without a College Education and im talking about democrats now and obviously very strong with africanamerican voters. I guess modders go for bloomberg or might support him but who else . That is the billiondollar question. I would disagree. Dont think there is a voter path to cut into bidens lead. His lead is among africanamericans and doesnt mean hell have that forever and noneducated white voters and a clear path to cut into the Buttigieg Movement and hes a once in a generation smart guy who people are really excited about. That is not they wont turn to bloomberg. I do think the place where i dont know what bloombergs voter path is and he isnt cutting into warren or Bernie Sanders lead and in fact his running gives them a great foil out on the Campaign Trial and im sure theyll use it. And him running, and i dont think we know the answer to this, other wealthy people who are democrats that would have given to bidens pact, we dont know what the impact will be of that. Will they stop and go for bloomberg and not give to the pact. Is that money that biden would rely on for other reasons giving hes having fundraising money and that is the place would watch. And it is pointed out that bloomberg is very active when it comes to pushing issues such as more restrictions on gun ownership or more action when it comes to combatting Climate Change. Hes been very active in virginia where you live. Yeah, he has been on the democratic side especially in the last few cycles and with democrats a very good night in virginia this week it was this week. Three days ago. It seems like a couple of weeks ago, right. So bloomberg is in sync with in sync with virginia democrats and they have an open prime so people like plea could vote on the democratic side then with the would you vote for him . Would you vote in the democratic primary for bloomberg, theoretically . Yeah. I think going for him and in the immediate of what somebody dumping on his candidacy is, hes qualified to be a president. Hes been chief of a complicated city to run. And people could quarrel with particular issues and built up a fantastic company and he won three times in new york. Running not as a democrat. Which hurts him but in a way impressive and a awful lot of working class people voted for him and not just the billionaires that got him 750,000 votes in new york. That is right. New york is a different entity than most of the country no, i dont agree with that. But on issues like gun and gun saxt and Climate Change and hes done more than any other elected officials and if he could advertise that that might help. And you live in virginia and i dont know if your reg stition registration. We dont have registration. And would you vote for him in a democratic primary . Would vote in a democratic primary and the biggest thing is he doesnt like soda or gums. Those are some of my favorite things so that is a problem for me. But i do think he could pull other voters who might be republican voters. I think that is real. The problem is in other states hes not going to run in a democratic prime primary and he doesnt do well with black voters. Well stop and frisk is what he started. And stick around. President trump called Jeff Sessions an idiot and weak and disgraceful and the list goes on but see how far the former attorney general is going to sing President Trumps praises. Stay with us. Exxonmobil is growing algae for biofuels. That could one day power planes, propel ships, and fuel trucks. And cut their Greenhouse Gas emissions in half. Algae. Its potential just keeps growing. 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In our politics lead, the former attorney general is back and running for his old Alabama Senate seat in a new campaign ad it is clear who Jeff Sessions wants desperately to be on his side. Well i led President Trumps cabinet and did i write a tellall book . No. Did i go on cnn and attack the president . Nope. Have i said a crossword about our president . He has my strong support. But does sessions have the president s support . Well here is what the president said today. I saw he said very nice things about me last night. But well have to see. Ill have to i havent made a determination. So Mary Katharine, that president isnt complicated so the way to get him to support you you say nice things about him and even though President Trump was so nasty to him when he was his own attorney general it seems like the flattery ad worked maybe . I feel worried for Jeff Sessions that this will not be reciprocal for very long. I predict that the improbable campaign by trump to make Jeff Sessions sympathetic to everyone will continue. And that even if he said hes endorsing him there will be jabs taken throughout the campaign. Dont think hes going to let it go and if he manages to mess up another Alabama Senate seat for republicans that is just a really remarkable political malpractice. And bill you said yesterday you dont think sessions has the inside track but if he had not become the attorney general he would have had the senate seat for the rest of his life. So you think there is no constituentsy for him. I have no great knowledge of alabama politics but if that is possible like ray moore and stuff. But, a. , voters dont like people coming back and we have instances of people coming back two, four, six, eight years later and losing. And if you are a trump loyalist you think he didnt come through for trump and if you are a small voter from middle class hes just part of the trump mess. So i think an outsider who is suitably protrump and never dealt with the whole thing could be a better candidate. And he was asked if he had talk to President Trump. Take a listen. You dont want him to come out against you, of course. Are you going to talk to him about it . Well i will. And i look forward to having that opportunity and hadnt been provided at this moment. That really sounds like hes ahh hes trying to reach what am i doing, jefferson bauregard sessions. He said he wont turn his call. Its like ive texted him 19 times and he hasnt texted back. I agree with Mary Katharine, im not sure trump will reciprocate his love and he needs it for the race in alabama and im not an expert on the state either but it would help him. And trump is going to alabama for a Football Game this weekend. And the crowd includes tommy tuberville, did i pronounce that correctly. Does session have a chance if tuberville is there . No, i think the same points that you pointed out and it is hard to have a clear path to victory and it is interesting that most candidates when they make an announcement video for voters but this is for one person. So i thought that was an interesting strategy. But i think trump changes his mind on a daily basis so resting your campaign and moving forward on his approval does not seem to be a Winning Strategy and i think voters see through that. Is all of this good for doug jones, the incumbent democratic senator . It is still alabama. Hes a senator from alabama. I know. And incumbency matters but if it is so up in the air and he does continue to take punches for instance Jeff Sessions is the frontrunner and just to sort of lop off enough support to create the doug jones again, it is very impressive. Youre expressing sympathy for sessions but all of the drama about the republican primary in alabama must make you happy as a democrat . Sure. 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